Curlew Photographs

When the Trafalgar Rowing Centre was refurbished a great many old Curlew memorabilia was moved into a storage unit under the supervision of the then Club Captain. Due to various circumstances the storage unit was emptied and moved to a new location…however, during this process the storage unit was emptied and the contents were lost/stolen/mislaid. With it, a lot of our old Curlew pictures. Over the course of the past 5 years at Curlew, we have been actively searching out the whereabouts of the Curlew Archives – we have managed to track down a number of digital copies of the some of the pictures, we’ve also had a return of a couple of boxes of old trophies. But the entire content has remained lost…

However, we have made a discovery in an antique shop in south west London. 11 pictures have surfaced. The dealer who legitimately bought them from an antique fair from Wimbledon is willing to sell them back at cost price to the club.

We need to raise funds to buy back these pictures and return them to their rightful home. He is wanting £450 to cover the cost of buying them from the dealer. But also we would like to start a fund to facilitate this sort of purchase in the future.

Thank you very much for helping return this lost piece of history back to the club.